yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mb:
I think the length of time I've been registered here might suggest I've "been around the block a few times".

Many a wasted day/month/year flashing whatever was the latest and to be honest now I'm older I ask myself - what actually changed?

Pulser is unique in that if it is different enough for him to release a new ROM then he will.

I've not had that before on XDA. Newest is not necessarily the best. Long may it continue.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mb:
Easy question - HOW? If you can name at least one good reason to change, I'm in. Good luck.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I find that rather offensive actually.

I have not updated as there seem to be more issues, certainly kernel level, that need addressed. Poorer battery life etc...

If you want to look back, you'll see most of the original tweaks for this phone were from me :p

How about...

3am vibration for fully charged

Camera sounds and battery level

Camera not muting music

Video player battery level

Other stuff I can't be bothered recalling off the top of my head like random tweaks to apps for people...

It ain't broke right now. The whole point of vr is to not be full of customisations out the box. Hence I don't need to update every 2 minutes like others may choose to.

But if you want to throw round allegations, at least make sure they are founded first please :) check which custom rom was there first, and you will realise that I have no need to see what other people are doing...

Might as well delay any other updates for another week, given we seem to have trolls in our midst.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Ta, think we need some of that :D

Some people forget the aim is huge battery life without compromising on features...

I believe that the non believers can check @BrandonMiniman on twitter, who mentioned this in particular (a highly eminent and respected tech author) I think it was a few weeks ago...

Right now, it ain't broke, and newer builds appear to offer some snake oil and placebo juice ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Haha. I don't approve of version bumps :) perhaps I should make nightly builds that are just renamed? :p might keep the "omg bigger number" brigade happy :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] blunted09:
i actually use criskelo's rom v12 which remains at kg6! Pulser, one thing i definitely respect about your builds is you wont put your name on something lesser than the last. Trust me, remain on kg6.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] lovidore:
Can't believe pulser has to defend himself in his own thread. Rather sad actually.

What happenned to people being appreciative of the hard work devs are putting in for the community?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] lpsi2000:
I hear you, as you know haters are everywhere. Don't let the miserable few spoil it for the rest of the believers. The ones that appreciate you work believe on your methodology and the efforts that have been forth. At the end of the day it is your ROM and you don't need to answer to anyone. So keep up with the great work you do and I look forward to fewer updates:D

nah, he did not have to defend himself, he just wanted to say something.:p
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Auridran:
Don't worry about anyone complaining. You're doing this out of your love of the phone/the good of your heart! You're also doing an awesome job. This is the first ROM I flashed for the SGS2 and I haven't felt the need to flash anything else. It's there and it works without a bunch of other crap forced onto me.

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the older version VRTweaks in the newest versions of VillainROM, but I am by no means complaining, and I'm sure there's a good reason they're not in the latest version.

Keep up the good work and don't let the haters get you down.
[HTC Sensation] willhub:
Hi.

I notice some roms/mod mention radio S-OFF, well I've got my phone rooted and have S-OFF, so does this mean the radio is S-OFF? If not how do I do it?

Thanks.
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
Try searching mate....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1178143
[HTC Sensation] willhub:
I've already use a file called PG58IMG.zip so I can't do Radio S-OFF due to already using the file?

I don't understand this.
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
Which bit you struggling with mate?

You need to download the radio you want then re-name it to PG58IMG.zip.
[HTC Sensation] willhub:
Well tbh I prefer the look of the radio that's already on :s, but apparently like some of the roms NEED a new radio.

Does anything I flash need to be under that file name?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1098849

It says Radio S-OFF in order to flash new radio.
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
All i did to flash Revolution HD was to S-OFF and Perm Root, then Used Super Wipe as it says, got Super CID (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192300)

Then flashed the Rom and No-Sense Rom (Optional).

I haven't flashed any other radio and the Rom is running superbly.
[HTC Sensation] willhub:
I've not done Super CID I didn't think I had to.

When I flash I'm going to loose everything like my contacts and messages right? I would use HTC Sync to back em up but It won't let me sync contacts to my PC.
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
Yeah do the Super CID, it's pretty easy.

To back everything up, download Titanium Backup from the market, go to back up/restore, press menu, batch, then run all user apps and system data.

This will backup all of your data up to your SD card, and won't be erased on the wipe.

Then after the flash all you have to do is re-download titanium backup and run the restore.
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
Also your contacts should be saved to your googlemail account, and I always do a copy of my SD card to my computer just in case ;)

If I were you i'd wait until later to flash Revolution HD as mike1986 is bringing out an update later today.
[HTC Sensation] willhub:
Ok I'll wait untill later today.

I have backed my contacts up to my PC, I don't know how to add all my contacts to googlemail?

When I create a contact, do I select my googlemail account under "Contact type"

Is the no-sense version better of revolution?
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
Yeah when you add a contact,it should pop up then when you restore your phone you can grab all the contacts back from googlemail.

Let me know how you get on!

EDIT: Yeah, no-sense is faster and uses GoLauncher which is alot more customizable. Its just a matter of choice really!
[HTC Sensation] willhub:
Will do.

I'm going to try no-sense first, but I might try the one with sense after. I do like HTC Widgets if I could get em separately.

I understand with the rom if I want to change the theme, I have to re flash compared to just putting a new theme like go launcher on the stock rom?

I really want better battery life though.
[HTC Sensation] tacklebury87:
You can still get widgets via, the market, with apps like beautiful widgets, fancy widgets etc.

Not neccesairly, you can download themes from the forum or market for most of the launchers.

My battery life has improved since i satrted using Revolution HD, just make sure you reset your battery stats like he tells you at the bottom of the first post. Also I purchased an Anker 1900aH battery from amazon which is ALOT better than the stock one.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gubiguy:
Here's the story:

I was on the latest build of CM7.

I made a backup in orange recovery.

I decided to flash the glitch low-leakage kernel.

It crashed, as I was expecting (I was just trying it out).

So I 3-buttoned into blue recovery, and attempted to just flash the high-leakage kernel.

I did, but then it just stayed on the "Glitch" bootup screen and didn't go past it.

So I attempted a restore to the backup I made; the restore failed, saying it couldn't mount /system, /datadata, or /cache... but not before deleting my previous boot image (-.-).

So I then attempted a clean install of CM7 (factory reset, dalvik cache wipe)

Same problem with the bootup screen.

I've been unable to solve it... any help would be very much appreciated.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skafan2:
I would recommend following the steps in this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1124391) and going completely back to stock with the atlas.pit file and making sure that works before reflashing cm7. If you can't even boot after returning to stock, you've got a real problem, but I don't think that would be the case (you probably got your kernels screwed up somewhere, which stock should fix). If stock works fine, upgrade to cm7 as normal.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gubiguy:
It worked... partially. I got back to stock, but data doesn't work. Brought it to a verizon store and they're shipping me a shiny new fascinate as we speak :). Perhaps I should rename the title of this thread, how to get yourself a brand new fascinate? lol
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george1234567890:
Is it possible to change the name of the setting (etc. Display)

to something else?

If so how?
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
I have been googleing for hours, did not find projet page.

Who is the author ? how to contact him ? where is project page ?

I could not find URL to make direct download of CWM. I have found CWM 4.0.1.4 by mistake (grepping proxy logs after running Revolutionary). Rom manager does not give details about CWM.

bugs:

- in 4.0.1.4: when the phone is in CWM, it does not charge the battery; bug is not fixed in 4.0.1.5 (i ran to battery flat just after a system wipe: no way to restart the phone ever; had to charge the batt the manual way)

- when backup is run in normal mode, CWM is not able to detect full memory (no message, it just says the backup was all good)

- when backup is broken, CWM allows to restaure it

- when the md5 sig file is empty, it allows to restaure the backup

feature request:

- allow advanced backup (just like advanced restaure) to allow backup up only data and-or cache, and not system/boot (to save room on SD).
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
There is the Twitter and Facebook link's on the clockworkmod homepage. Have you tried through them?

Also just by typing it in to Google it brought up the homepage and the recovery images can be got from there.

Ps this shouldn't be in development.
[HTC Sensation] bonesy:
Excuse me but this is a question so.....

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SECTION!
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
cjm1979 ... i said i did not find the project home page.

bonesy i agree, some forum admin could move the topic to Q&A.
[HTC Sensation] asko1981:
This is what I get when I type clockworkmod and hit the google search button.

http://goo.gl/OxexT

That took 5 seconds.

Now, I'm having the same issue with the latest CWM. I let the battery discharge completely and had the phone on the charger all night. Battery didn't charge a bit. Can't turn the phone on.
[HTC Sensation] catohagen:
how do you charge the battery the manual way ?
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
And when I saw that the title of page was Rom manager, i thouyght it was a different project with different author. Page does not contain download link to CWM.

Facebook page does not contain any link to owner of page (I hate FB).

But after cliking over many websites, project is mentionned in his project list:

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/07/code.html

http://www.koushikdutta.com/ articles offer to mail author ...

> how do you charge the battery the manual way ?

I have a heavy electronic lab. You need a power supply that will have fine tuning for voltage (4.2max, but i prefer using 3.8V), and ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED current limiter. I have choosen 100mA: enough to charge the batt a bit, at slow rate (1/20), and power the mother board. Fact is, I think the phone uses more than 100mA ...

let it charge for 1h, then you can use it 15mn. Enough to flash and boot when the SD card is ready.

I did not charge it outside the box, but put aluminium foils inside the phone contact pins. + is the outter pin, minus is the inner pin (next to SIM card).

There are docks that have slot to charge bats.

http://shop.pointgphone.com/dock-de-recharge-et-synchronisation-pour-htc-sensation.html

claims to have this ability, but I did not buy it yet. I shall buy this dock very fast; then buy batts on Deal Extreme (4 USD each).

Because of this bug, my batt ran flat, down to 2.75. As it went below 3.10, it is dead. Thats a fact. And, I now feel that the cover is not flat any more; I can not see the plastic curved, but I can feel the inner content to start blowing. I lost at least 10 or 20% capacity. And batt is already on ending part of it's life.

Since I bought the phone last week, I have 3 or 6 month to boost it's death and ask for waranty.

The issue is not only the bug in CWM. The issue is also that this phone will refuse to power from USB: some HTC can be power only by charger, and will keep working when you remove the batt. Sensation does not. If it was the case, my batt would not have died.
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
asko1981 if you do not have current limiting power supply, do NOT do like me.

If you have basic components, I can calculate which resistor you should use to recharge the batt by just using normal USB:

- grab an old USB mouse

- cut cable

- put the black wire of USB on inner pin of bat

- put some resistor between red wire and outer pin

Edit:

Assuming USB=5.0V (use laptop USB, they are more stable than desktop; DO NOT use a wall charger), we want 100mA and 3.8V.

U=RI

R=U/I=1.2/0.1=12 ohms.

Make it 15R. start with a 20 or 24R. You should be able to find around 48R or 100R resistors: put as many in parallel as required. Start with 5 100R in //, then add one or two or three until you reach 100mA. Voltage will rise very slowly. All depends how empty your batt is. If you are below 3.1, you killed it.

Use Vmeter and Ameter if you can to check that voltage remains below 4.0, and current below 150mA. Actually, HTC charges 1850mAh in 4h, that means they charge at 450mA; but they can monitor the temperature; we can't. Charging below 1/10th should be fine. Put your hand on the batt; temperature must tay below 41°; at 1/10 it should stay below 30.

You need to constantly check values (every 10s). You shall not insert the bat in the phone as long as the voltage has not reached 3.4V (without home made charger).

If you feel confident, you can put the batt in the phone, and connect charger to phone pins using fine wires. In this case, do NOT connect the USB data cable !!!
[HTC Sensation] asko1981:
I'm thinking about just getting a new battery. It should have enough juice to power up the phone.

I just wanna make sure that my problem is in fact CWM.

Thanks for the help.
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
Problem *IS* CWM (and HTC bad design: all phones hide the SIM behind the battery, but I never understood why they manage to force user to powerfailure on SIM insertion). Saw in the changelog that they are working on this issue.

My phone used to charge when switched on (after power failure) on USB. Stopped working after installing CWM.

DealExtreme has batts for Sensation. I pointed a dock station that claims to be able to charge them.

See my edit in previous post.
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
You can't see the downloads at the bottom of the page?

www.clockworkmod.com/
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
I see two lists (ROMs and recovery) ... not very explicit (I am not a random clicker; i don't click any where and everywhere; i click only on info that look pertinent).

And Sensation points to CWM 4.0.1.5 which is not latest. Latest is 4.0.1.4 build yesterday night (see the other thread where I got angry: they updated 4.0.1.4 without changing name, so that 4.0.1.4 is not fresher than 4.0.1.5 ... )

Forget my question. I hate this guy.

CWM is a wonderfull tool that saved my life, but the guy, and the websites around the tool are just ... no way. Forget my question. I ll see if i can delete this thread.
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
Hate which guy? Rom manager on my phone updated the recovery to 4.0.1.5 and the phone charges when off. Im not been funny or flaming you but Im not quite sure what the problem is. You seem angry for no reason at all. It's not the developers fault you didn't search properly for what you wanted, both clockworkmod and the download link. People have been on and directed you to what you wanted and it's still not enough?? Have you tried to update it through rom manager?

And when you say the download link is not very specific, you were looking for clockworkmod recovery and there is a big link saying recovery!
[HTC Sensation] iJo09:
It's official: my battery is dead.

Tested it with a voltmeter: 2.81V instead of (at least) 3.1V!! :(

I also tested a completely discharged Nokia BL-5C: 3.4V

So then my HTC battery is absolutely dead (because of this bug)!
[HTC Sensation] doublehp:
cjm1979 for publishing the latest release as 4.0.1.4 under the same URL as the first 4.0.1.4 ... after having published 4.0.1.5. I have 4.0.1.5, and been said that 4.0.1.4 is fresher than 4.0.1.5 ...

for the fact that 4.0.1.4 downloaded yesterday is not the same file than 5 days ago, dispite using the same URL. Same URL returns different content with time.

For people who daily rebuild source, and want to publish every day a different binary under the same name and URL, we created the word "night-build": every morning, the link gives content that will be different from the previous day. But the name 4.0.1.4 is a release name, and does not designate alpha, night, or daily, or git. Who could ever think that 4.0.1.4 could be fresher than 4.0.1.5 and that an URL containing a version number would point to content changing with time ? dl.dropbox.com/u/33327355/cwm-4.0.1.4-pyramid.img

The big link says recovery; why not name it backup ? breakfast ? ... or just simply clockwork ? When I want a fish, I don't go to the baker's.

iJo09 it is dead, but it is still usable. Find a way to charge it up to 3.5 or 3.6, and then you can use it again. It's not reliable any more, but mine still does the job. I bought new batts, but as I am waiting for the new ones, the old one still allows me to use the phone at least 6h per day.

We are using off the road softwares. By doing S-Off, we knew we were taking risks. This kind of bug is expected; this kind of this always happen the first days after breaking this kind of device. Loosing my battery is part of the game. And I will never *reproach* any one to be responsible for this loss. We tested, we were unlucky. I am already very happy that S-OFF did not brick the phone. Battery loss is small side effect. I am not allowed to be angry against dev for this. What I am angry about is that the fix have been applied and published under the name of an *old* package !!!

And your battery can still be used !!! Just charge it to at least 3.4V by any way (do not use current above 200mA); use two wires, and connect it to any NiMh or Lipo charger (a charger designed for a weaker batt will do. DO NOT use a charger designed for bigger battery). Do not connect directly to USB: use of current limiter is MANDATORY (over-current can make it explode and burn: you can die, or start fire in the house). Find any weak charger, or current limiter, and you can recover it.

Electronic people just consider that a NiMh or Lipo batt that one day came below 3.1 is dead. We change and replace by a new one. But if this is your only one, you can still use it. I told you how to do it in detail yesterday. With a current limiter, it's safe. Once above 3.4, put it back in phone, phone will boot.
[HTC Sensation] greves1:
I think the stock clear button in the upper right corner is a bit small and out of the way. Perhaps the button can go all the way across the notification pulldown screen at the bottom.

Also, maybe there is another way to open the notification area that is faster. I don't like laving to make a huge swipe to open it quickly, and I don't like how slowly it opens if I do a slow swipe.

Cheers to all. Good luck with the modding to come in the next few weeks and months :)
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v.pakard:
problem solved
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fred kaz:
Hi,

Could you please explain hopw you did this. I have a couple of stock apps which I will never use and would like to get rid of them.

Cheers,

Fred:D
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtdc:
I suppose need to be rooted, then using either titanium backup or root explorer, backup the app first then remove.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rangercaptain:
Don't ever mess with the native email app. Many other apps are tied to this app.
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
Hey guys I was wondering if anybody else has had this issue occur with their device, recently my A500 has been playing audio from the speakers and headphones at the same time. This only happens on 2 out of 5 times, and when it does all I have to do is unplug the headphones and plug them back in. Yes, I have tried different pairs of headphones so that is not the problem. I need to know if this is an issue with the A500 itself( hardware) or if it could be a software issue:confused: just so I know whether to have it exchanged for a new one or not.

Appreciate the feedback guys:D
[Acer Iconia A500] gammaRascal:
I'm sure it's unlikely to be a hardware issue as the headphone jack seems to work fine.

My vote is software bug. What are you using to listen to music? What steps are you taking to go from speakers to headphone - during playback? Before playback? Pausing playback, changing to headphones then starting playback?

Can you repeat any steps to get it to bug out on a regular basis or is it completely random?

It could be a music app bug or a HC bug. I have read others having similar problems since release but I don't believe anyone has found a solution/or the cause or done any testing.
[Acer Iconia A500] matrix.bharath:
yes i have been experiencing the same issue. this is where i have noticed it

When i start the music player app and plugin the jack and start music and then if the screen turns of or pause it and screen turns of and when i resume the same after sleep the music plays on both speaker and head phones this was not happening on 3.01 and happening on 3.1

i have tested this please confirm play music plug in the jack and then press power button which goes to sleep mode when u press the power button one more time and resume music this happens

One more thing is when i remove the jack the music app just pops up on the tool bar as in the status bar at the bottom
[Acer Iconia A500] gammaRascal:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list
[Acer Iconia A500] Heythumb:
Hey matrix I tried reproducing your issue but it was fine, sound only came from the headphones. Btw I am using virtuousgalaxy rom, although when the issue started I was on virtuouspicasso
[Acer Iconia A500] F.L.A.M:
Having the same problem on my stock 3.1. Sometimes i need to unplug and plug in headphones multiple times to get it back to normal behaviour.
[Acer Iconia A500] entropy.of.avarice:
yup

Have had nothing but strange issues when using the stock music player. Sound coming from headphones/speakers at the same time, random fc's, horrid popping sounds from a perfect mp3 file, and my personal favorite feature - sometimes the player just starts up on it's own and blares music at inappropriate times.

Had these issues with stock music player since 3.0.1 up to the stock 3.1 build I am using.

My solution? Remove the stock music player from the system, download winamp, ???, profit :-)
[Motorola Droid X2] Lubencw:
Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a decrease in signal with the p3? I updated last night and noticed a slight decrease. Weather related or not idk. Just wondering